March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2799 



entire edges slightly involute in the dry state at least, 

 rounded toward the apex and terminated by a short broad 

 point, obovate or obovately elongated, opposite, the average 

 ones 2 dm long by 8 cm wide above the middle, cuneate 

 at the base, the margins perceptibly decurrent clear to the 

 swollen basal portion of the potiole; midrib stout, ridged 

 along both sides, dull reddish brown; lateral nerves lighter 

 brown especially on the upper side, relatively prominent, 

 much ascending and curved toward their distal end, about 

 7 pairs although the basal 2 pairs are faint, tips anastomos- 

 ing; cross bars few, reticulations more numerous, both quite 

 evident from both sides; petiole I cm long, the sides with 

 a narrow lamina portion, the basfl one half much enlarged 

 and dark when dry, glabrous. Spikes terminal, axillary or 

 lateral, much recurved, varying from 1.5 to 4 dm long, 

 usually solitary; rachis glabrous, when fresh dark bluish on 

 the exposed sides, curing black, terete, the young apical 

 portion puberulent; flowers irregularly scattered from near 

 the base, odorless; pedicels in pairs, 4 to 5 mm long, 1 

 mm thick, sparsely strigose, subdiscoid at the distal end, 

 each with a small bract on the outer side below the middle, 

 falsely united at the base; perianth 2 cm long, cylindric 

 in the bud state, apex much enlarged and ellipsoid, base 

 only obscurely swollen, becoming easily detached; segments 

 valvate, first becoming separated below the middle, 4, ul- 

 timately separating the full length toward the apex and the 

 lobes settling about the base in a curved and twisted man- 

 ner, the apical portion oblong and obtusely pointed, gla- 

 brous, coriaceous; stamens as many as perianth lobes, in- 

 serted upon the perianth in the bulged apical portion, op- 

 posite the segments; filaments adnate, compressed, glabrous, 

 inserted 3.5 mm below the apex of the perianth lobes; 

 anther 2.5 mm long, narrowly oblong, the thick connec- 

 tive convex along the dorsal side and terminated in a 

 blunt somewhat inwardly curved point, the comparatively 

 thin cells opening along the inner side, 1 mm wide above 

 the middle of the widest portion; ovary fusiform, 2 mm 

 long, glabrate, surrounded at the base by 4 more or less 

 quadrangular thick and glabrous plate-like segments; style 

 also glabrous, slender, as long as the perianth or a trifle 



